MORAN: Ten-year plans not something that the United States
government does very well, but the stimulus, that was a big debate here
this week. Both of you were supporters of it. The Republican Party,
though, staked out a pretty stark position on the stimulus, summed up by
Mitt Romney at the CPAC convention this week when he basically -- this
is his take, and really speaking for the Republican Party in general on
what the stimulus did.

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ROMNEY: He scared employers. The jobs were scarce. His nearly
trillion-dollar stimulus created not one net new job in the private sector.

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MORAN: Governor Schwarzenegger, that is where the Republicans are,
that the stimulus was a failure and that it did not create one net new
job in the private sector. True?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, you know, to me I find it interesting that
you have a lot of the Republicans running around and pushing back on the
stimulus money and saying this doesn't create any new jobs, and then
they go out and they do the photo ops and they are posing with the big
check and they say, isn't this great? Look what the kind of -- the kind
of money I provide here for the state, and this is great money to create
jobs, and this has created 10,000 new jobs and this has created 20,000
new jobs. And all of these kind of things. It doesn't match up. So
it's exactly--

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RENDELL: It's hypocrisy at the highest level.

SCHWARZENEGGER: I think, you know--

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SCHWARZENEGGER: -- of my Republican colleagues, but I think it's
kind of politics, rather than thinking about only one thing, and this is
how do we support the president, how do we support him and do everything
that we can in order to go and stimulate the economy, get the economy
back, and think about the people rather than politics.

I have been the first governor of the Republican governors to come
out and to support the stimulus money because I say to myself, this is
terrific, and anyone that says that it hasn't created the jobs, they
should talk to the 150,000 people that have been getting jobs in California.

MORAN: Private sector?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Yes, for the private sector and also from the
public sector. I mean, if it is teachers, if it is university
professors, if it is people that are building infrastructure and stuff
like that. I mean in every category, there is jobs that have been
created in California, 150,000. This is 150,000 people that are going
home today with a check that are providing for the family, that can buy
the textbooks for their kids, that are feeling wanted and needed and
feeling productive. I mean, a better job, it isn't just a job, it's all
of those kind of other things. So I'm happy that we got this money.
I'm happy that we have put 150,000 people to work and there will be more
people that we will put to work.